Ron DeSantis Quotes

As more time passes, people see my father for what he is - one of the last of a generation who went into government to answer a call to public service rather than to pursue a career in politics.

I'm not into politics. I have received offers to enter politics, but I have not been tempted so far. I can't say about the future.

Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in.

I don't want to become Washington.

I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.

I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.

I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.

I always thought of myself is a private-sector person. I was a reluctant candidate. I put in my time. Now it's somebody else's turn to take charge. But I am still very interested in politics.

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.

After a great deal of thought and discussions with my family, I have decided not to seek re-election in 2014. Politics shouldn't be a career, and I never intended to make it one.

I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

Public men rarely keep their promises to retire from public life.

Men in political life must be ambitious.

I don't want to be known as a politician.

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

I have no desire to run for public office.

I want to be a public servant, not a politician.

The traditional path to making a name for yourself in our family is running for elective office, and I couldn't do that because, for one thing, all the really good offices were taken.

My father did not groom us for politics. I took the plunge because I wanted to carry on his work in his constituency.